Overview: Puts the concept of quality, its history, meaning and contemporary impact at center stage.Analyses the concepts’ transformation of meaning over time, inlcuding current and co-existing quality perspect.The notion of quality features prominently in contemporary discourse. Numerous ratings, rankings, metrics, auditing, accreditation, benchmarking, smileys, reviews, and international comparisons are all used regularly to capture quality. .This book paves the way in exploring the socio-political implications of evaluative statements, with a specific focus on the contribution of the concep
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